Guanella Pass: Part 3
Guanella Pass Road Thinking Beyond the Pavement--
Guanella Pass Road winds its way 24-miles along the rugged and scenic Front Range of Colorado's Rocky Mountains. From its inception to Record of Decision, the planning phase of this project took more than a decade; numerous hours of public meetings; thousands of pages of documents; and years of research and analysis. It was a politically charged process that posed seemingly impossible challenges for program agencies and stakeholders alike.
This is the story of how Guanella Pass Road was successfully rebuilt using context sensitive solutions (CSS). CSS asks questions first about the need and purpose of the transportation project, and then equally addresses safety, mobility, and the preservation of scenic, aesthetic, historic, environmental, and other community values.
Leading the process to determine an acceptable solution for this project was the Federal Highway Administrations' Central Federal Lands Highway Division.
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